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Originally Posted by Rodney
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My current wallpaper is a shot from the LA Public Library website of a bunch of 1920s bathing beauties on the beach. They're all trying to shoot helium balloons out of the sky with bows and arrows, and a guy in the background is running away to avoid the falling arrows. It's a really hilarious and surreal shot, but I look at it every once in a while and think, damn: if any one of them is still alive, she's over 100 by now.
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Heh. Like javelin catching. Or death by Jart. Everyone remembers Jart, right?
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